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The O(N)-flavoured replica twist defect

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-07-26 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

Replica twist defects are of codimension two and enter in quantum information when finding the R\'enyi entropy. In particular, they generate n replicas of the bulk conformal field theory. We study the monodromy of such defect and learn how a global O(N)-symmetry is broken. By applying the equation of motion to the bulk-defect operator-product expansion we are able to extract the anomalous dimension of defect-local fields.

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@article{arxiv.2304.08116,
  title  = {The O(N)-flavoured replica twist defect},
  author = {Alexander Söderberg Rousu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.08116},
  year   = {2023}
}

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